The Cullen Jackman Memorial Collection (1881-1995) documents the artistic and creative nature of those of African descent. A series of note within this collection are the photographs by Carl Van Vechten, an American writer, artistic photographer, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance. An appreciator of the arts, Van Vechten promoted many of the major figures of the Renaissance through his photography, including Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Rose McClendon, and Ethel Waters. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
May 20, 2022

Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection

The Cullen Jackman Memorial Collection (1881-1995) documents the artistic and creative nature of those of African descent. A series of note within this collection are the photographs by Carl Van Vechten, an American writer, artistic photographer, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance. An appreciator of the arts, Van Vechten promoted many of the major figures of the Renaissance through his photography, including Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Rose McClendon, and Ethel Waters.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
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A portrait of Bessie Smith. Written on recto: Photo, 1923, by Edward Elcha, courtesy of Rudi Blesh. Bessie Smith in 1923, the year of her first record, which sold 780,000 copies in six months. It earned her only $125, but it established her as the leading blues singer. From BESSIE SMITH: EMPRESS OF THE BLUES (Schirmer Books/Frank Music, April 15).
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Bessie Smith, 1923
Date Created
1923
Description
A portrait of Bessie Smith. Written on recto: Photo, 1923, by Edward Elcha, courtesy of Rudi Blesh. Bessie Smith in 1923, the year of her first record, which sold 780,000 copies in six months. It earned her only $125, but it established her as the leading blues singer. From BESSIE SMITH: EMPRESS OF THE BLUES (Schirmer Books/Frank Music, April 15).
Subject
African American women, Portraits and people, African American arts, Music--Performance, Singers
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Betty Allen, March 27, 1958
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Betty Allen, March 27, 1958
Date Created
1958-03-27
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, African American women, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billie Holiday, March 23, 1949
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billie Holiday, March 23, 1949
Date Created
1949-03-23
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, African American women, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billy Dee Williams, January 29, 1963
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billy Dee Williams, January 29, 1963
Date Created
1963-01-29
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American actors, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billy Strayhorn, August 19, 1958
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Billy Strayhorn, August 19, 1958
Date Created
1958-08-19
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American musicians, African American composers, African Americans--Music, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Portrait of Bobby Evans. Written on verso: Bobby Evans, Singer and dancer; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Bobby Evans, circa 1953
Date Created
1948/1958
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Description
Portrait of Bobby Evans. Written on verso: Bobby Evans, Singer and dancer; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African American dancers, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Bobby Short, January 3, 1962
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Bobby Short, January 3, 1962
Date Created
1962-01-03
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African American musicians, African Americans--Music, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
C. L. R. James, circa 1946
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
C. L. R. James, circa 1946
Date Created
1941/1951
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American authors, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Written on cassette J-card: CAAS Conference, 12-4-75. [SIDE A] George Kent, "The Place of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in the Tradition of Black Autobiographies". [SIDE B] Kent, cont.; Eugenia Collier, "Images of the Black Woman in Black Literature".
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
CAAS [Conference] Tape 1, George Kent and Eugenia Collier, December 4, 1975
Date Created
1975-12-04
Description
Written on cassette J-card: CAAS Conference, 12-4-75. [SIDE A] George Kent, "The Place of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in the Tradition of Black Autobiographies". [SIDE B] Kent, cont.; Eugenia Collier, "Images of the Black Woman in Black Literature".
Subject
African American arts
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Written on cassette J-card: CAAS Conference, 12-4-75. [SIDE A] Collier, con't.; John Henrik Clarke, "The Black American's Search for an Idealology".
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
CAAS [Conference] Tape 2, [Eugenia] Collier and John H. Clarke, December 4, 1975
Date Created
1975-12-04
Description
Written on cassette J-card: CAAS Conference, 12-4-75. [SIDE A] Collier, con't.; John Henrik Clarke, "The Black American's Search for an Idealology".
Subject
African American arts
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Portrait of Cab Calloway in front of a floral background.
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Cab Calloway, circa 1940
Date Created
1935/1945
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Description
Portrait of Cab Calloway in front of a floral background.
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, African American dancers, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Camilla Ella Williams, May 31, 1946
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Camilla Ella Williams, May 31, 1946
Date Created
1946-05-31
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, African American women, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carl Darrow White, July 15, 1959
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carl Darrow White, July 15, 1959
Date Created
1959-07-15
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Portrait of Carl Van Vechten holding onto a chair.
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carl Van Vechten, circa 1940
Date Created
1935/1945
Description
Portrait of Carl Van Vechten holding onto a chair.
Subject
African American arts, Artists, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carmen de Lavallade and Others, 1955-1958
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carmen de Lavallade and Others, 1955-1958
Date Created
1955/1958
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American dancers, Theatre and dance, African American women, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carol Brice, April 10, 1947
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Carol Brice, April 10, 1947
Date Created
1947-04-10
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American singers, African Americans--Music, African American women, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Portrait of Cedric Dover. Written on recto: For Harold with every good wish, Cedric. Written on verso: The late Cedric Dover, Eurasian at one time on the faculty at Fisk University, and author of the famous book on Negro art, for which Harold Jackman furnished much of the material; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 15, 1948.
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Cedric Dover, April 15, 1948
Date Created
1948-04-15
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Description
Portrait of Cedric Dover. Written on recto: For Harold with every good wish, Cedric. Written on verso: The late Cedric Dover, Eurasian at one time on the faculty at Fisk University, and author of the famous book on Negro art, for which Harold Jackman furnished much of the material; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 15, 1948.
Subject
African American arts, African American authors, African American scholars, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Charles Blackwell, July 5, 1955
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Charles Blackwell, July 5, 1955
Date Created
1955-07-05
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American dancers, Theatre and dance, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Portrait of Charles Perry with his arms crossed over the back of a chair. Written on verso: Charles Perry, author of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 146 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 14, 1962.
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Charles Perry, April 14, 1962
Date Created
1962-04-14
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Description
Portrait of Charles Perry with his arms crossed over the back of a chair. Written on verso: Charles Perry, author of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 146 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 14, 1962.
Subject
African American arts, African American authors, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 1947-1948
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 1947-1948
Date Created
1947/1948
Creator
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject
African American arts, African American sociologists, African American universities and colleges, African Americans--Education, Portraits and people
Collection
Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection